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The valley of Hinnom. The terrors of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping…The valley of Hinnom. The terrours of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping…
The valley of Hinnom. The terrors of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping the terrible miseries of the punishments on the wicked there, declared. In a sermon preached in the hearing, and at the request, of a man under a sentence of death for a murder; just before the execution of the sentence; and upon a text by himself assigned for the sermon to insist upon. At Boston, 13.d. IV.m. 1717, : [Two lines of quotation in Latin]The valley of Hinnom. The terrours of hell demonstrated and the methods of escaping the terrible miseries of the punishments on the wicked there, declared. In a sermon preached in the hearing, and at the request, of a man under a sentence of death for a murder; just before the execution of the sentence; and upon a text by himself assigned for the sermon to insist upon. At Boston, 13.d. IV.m. 1717, : [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by J. Allen for Robert Starke, 1717
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Among the Visions of GOD, granted unto a Favourite of Heaven, we find an Angel of the Lord flying through' the midst of Heaven, and saying with a loud Voice, Fear GOD, and give Glory to Him. Yea, But here we have the LORD of that Angel Himself coming down unto the Earth, and saying with a loud Voice, O Fear the glorious GOD! It is our Great SAVIOUR, who Himself is very GOD, that now speaks unto us. You are sensible, That our SAVIOUR was now sending forth His Apostles and His Ministers; to Reveal those Truths of the Gospel, which had hitherto been Covered. The Faithful Discharge of their ⟨p. 3⟩Ministry, would be Dangerous unto them; would bring even the Dangers of nothing less than Death it self upon them. To fortify them against the Fear of Death, Our SAVIOUR warns them of a destruction after Death, which is more to be feared than any Death. Unfaithfulness unto GOD and a Neglect of our Duty to Him, will Expose us to a Destruction of Soul as well as of Body, in a dreadful HELL, after Death; A Destruction more dreadful than any▪ Death. From the Apprehension of this Destruction we are to be quickened unto the Fear of GOD. The Fear of GOD will Quicken us unto all possible Fidelity, Integrity, Activity in the Discharge of our Duty to Him; will set us above the Fear of what any Man on Earth, or even all the Men in the World, can do unto us.
AMong the Visions of GOD, granted unto a Favourite of Heaven, we find an Angel of the Lord flying thro' the midst of Heaven, and saying with a loud Voice, Fear GOD, and give Glory to Him. Yea, But here we have the LORD of that Angel Himself coming down unto the Earth, and saying with a loud Voice, O Fear the glorious GOD! It is our Great SAVIOUR, who Himself is very GOD, that now speaks unto us. You are sensible, That our SAVIOUR was now sending forth His Apostles and His Ministers; to Reveal those Truths of the Gospel, which had hitherto been Covered. The Faithful Discharge of their ⟨p. 3⟩Ministry, would be Dangerous unto them; would bring even the Dangers of nothing less than Death it self upon them. To fortify them against the Fear of Death, Our SAVIOUR warns them of a destruction after Death, which is more to be fear'd than any Death. Unfaithfulness unto GOD and a Neglect of our Duty to Him, will Expose us to a Destruction of Soul as well as of Body, in a dreadful HELL, after Death; A Destruction more dreadful than any Death. From the Apprehension of this Destruction we are to be quickned unto the Fear of GOD. The Fear of GOD will Quicken us unto all possible Fidelity, Intergrity, Activity in the Discharge of our Duty to Him; will set us above the Fear of what any Man on Earth, or even all the Men in the World, can do unto us.